AHOY! ! ! !

SHIP'S LOG:

I wish that I had lots of news to report but sadly it is winter in the Northeast and it really inhibits working on boats. I did get a call from the Boatyard to confirm that I wanted them to do the repair work on the keel. i told them to go ahead and when the check came in from the insurance company i would bring it down. They said that that was fine but, what with the weather and all, it would be "months" before they go to it. O well, more waiting and more patience practice.

Electricity is beginning to make more and more sense. It's not getting clearer, it is just making more sense. In that it makes any sense whatever means it is making more sense than it did before, so it is an improvement, but a rather tiny one. I still have some time for it to become a little more knowledge and skill and rather less "magic."

MASTER'S PERSONAL LOG:

I am afraid that it has started already. A couple of large (41+foot) boats have mysteriously caught fire and sunk in their winter berths in the last week. I expect more the closer we get to the summer season and if things don't sort themselves out financially by fall, that number will really increase. People who are trying to sell their boats are all but giving them away and still are having serious trouble unloading them. Like every other industry, the marine industry and it subsidiary institutions are going to take a serious hit in the current financial crisis. I am just hoping to be able to get ABISHAG in shape to sail by spring and then to do just that.